Australia: 3 Bar or 4 Bar?

 Aside from West US servers, the other playable server for me would be the Australian server, but it's 4 bar ping since August has recently dropped back to 3, means it now has 200+ms ping again, which equals distant servers like South/East US. Wondering why, I did a quick investigation:  First I did a traceroute test to identify the route it takes for signals to travel to Australia from where I live  Node 1 is ,of course,...

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I Used to Believe in Suppression

 DICE introduced a new game mechanism called "suppression effect" in BF3. What it does is when you are fired upon, your vision goes blur, and your accuracy drops magnificently, even if you're aiming right at your target.  The purpose is to force you to find cover and play more tactically - same as in real combats which is to prevent enemy targets from operating. So basically I supported DICE's take on suppression effect at first,...

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The Mystery of M16A3

The Love, the Hate, the M16A3  I know, I know, I have same feeling whenever seeing this in game too. "What a scrub!"  The M16A3 became so infamous in BF3 after USAS-12 and FAMAS got nerfed. But it's indeed an amazing gun that handles almost every situation. It's fast, accurate, and easy to use, to a degree that even Russian assaults spam it too.  But sadly there are not much love for the A4 variant, as in...

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Beautiful Real Locations of BF3 Maps: Part 2

Nowshahr Canal  The port city of Nowshahr is quite different to the industrial facilities in BF3. It's a developed town with more than 40 thousands residents, and a famous domestic resort in Iran for its natural beauty of green mountains, Caspian sea. It is also home to an Iranian football (soccer) club, too.  from arminj@deviantart from www.skyscrapercity.com Grand Bazaar  Many...

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The Next Iconic Rifle of Russia?

There seems to be this trend in the community that AN-94 is for the pros and skilled, AEK-971 is for scrubs and is inaccurate at distance. And AK74M, oh well...  nobody gives a damn about it at all...  But the fact is, AK74M is the main service rifle in Russia... not AN, so I couldn't resist but to do a little research.. :p Project Abakan  The birth of these rifles dates back to 1980s, when Soviet realized the newly...

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Granata!! Granata!!

Have you ever wondered in this game, why you, a patriotic Russian Soldier, have to throw an American M67 hand grenade? Well, I have. So what would it look like if we replace all the possible US gadgets with true Russian made counterparts? Let's check it out! Normal 0 false false false EN-US ZH-TW X-NONE ...

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